Asteroid hitbox does not disappear after building base

ThePhantom032 · Post by **ThePhantom032** » Fri Sep 06, 2013 3:08 am

As the topic title states, an asteroids hitbox does not disappear on the server after building a base on it.

You do not notice this with flying your ship / shooting bullets, as that kind of collision is client sided and the hitbox only remains on the server.
Missile collsion however is on the server, and as such the "dead" asteroid can absorb for example ab missiles without the base taking damage.

Best way to reproduce:
start as dreg with ff on
build a tp con
research bombers
place tp on a decent sized rock (the larger the better, but tps in general should be small enough even on small rocks)
rip bbr to tp/ fly to 900m range
fire ab missiles from 900m and watch them die before they hit the tp, without doing dmg.

Same problem exists with all bases, however with the larger bases its harder to notice as they are mostly larger than small-medium sized rocks.

This bug was originally found during testing of draconium base hitboxes and obviously nearly drove us crazy

I have confirmed it also exists on public beta just to be save.

MonAG · Post by **MonAG** » Fri Sep 06, 2013 1:27 pm

Wasn´t there a similar problem in a 2v2 event that was held some months ago?

EDIT:

This: http://www.freeallegiance.org/forums/index...showtopic=68171

ThePhantom032 · Post by **ThePhantom032** » Fri Sep 06, 2013 1:42 pm

what you are talking about was on production, not beta, and was a client-side only issue AFAIK.

What you are talking about was this: Allied vision scouting enemy bases doesnt remove the asteroid on your client. Because of that you couldnt shoot it with projectiles (TF, OH, rix ab) or dock at it with htts. Destroying those bases with missiles still worked, IIRC.

This, while related and possibly a result of trying to fix the old problem, is not the same isssue at all.

MonAG · Post by **MonAG** » Fri Sep 06, 2013 1:48 pm

Weedman wrote:QUOTE (Weedman @ Feb 11 2013, 10:48 AM) allied teams needs fixing

it's really a disappointment when you take a bomber and a @#(!pile of nans into a sector, half of which are from your ally team, meet heavy resistance, and your bomber can't even dent the base because there is a $#@!ing asteroid over-shielding it.

anyway, fun game

ThePhantom032 · Post by **ThePhantom032** » Fri Sep 06, 2013 1:55 pm

Phantom032 wrote:QUOTE (Phantom032 @ Sep 6 2013, 03:42 PM) Because of that you couldnt shoot it with projectiles (TF, OH, rix ab) or dock at it with htts. Destroying those bases with missiles still worked.

Post by **pkk** » Fri Sep 06, 2013 1:58 pm

Seems like the asteroid is still in place after building teleport, took a full load of abms to take down shield with last msl.

Edit:
You have to kill the asteroid, before doing damage to the base. If you destroy the base, the server crashs.

ThePhantom032 · Post by **ThePhantom032** » Fri Sep 06, 2013 2:12 pm

pkk wrote:QUOTE (pkk @ Sep 6 2013, 03:58 PM) Seems like the asteroid is still in place after building teleport, took a full load of abms to take down shield with last msl.

Edit:
You have to kill the asteroid, before doing damage to the base. If you destroy the base, the server crashs.

if you do manage to destroy a base without killing the asteroid first, the server will not crash.

Post by **pkk** » Fri Sep 06, 2013 2:29 pm

Seems to be a bug within Ticket #307...

TurkeyXIII · Post by **TurkeyXIII** » Sun Sep 08, 2013 8:20 am

pkk wrote:QUOTE (pkk @ Sep 7 2013, 12:29 AM) Seems to be a bug within Ticket #307...

Almost certainly, that ticket was bound to cause problems.

I made you a ticket for this bug: http://trac.alleg.net/ticket/358

Post by **pkk** » Sun Sep 08, 2013 6:32 pm

Thank you for that fast fix.

New build on ACSS AU and on FAZDev.

PS:
You should turn on FF, while testing it.